Are you up to assembling your own car?

Are you up to assembling your own car?

American design student thinks up wild idea of creating an electric vehicle concept that drivers would assemble themselves.

Ryan Schlotthauer came up with the concept of the Höga, a compact car to be self-assembled. © Ryan Schlotthauer
PARIS:
If you like Citroën’s Ami, you’re going to love Höga.

Höga is the work of a young American design student, Ryan Schlotthauer, who imagined what a basic electric car could look like – no frills and to be assembled by the customer, like a simple piece of furniture.

Ultra-compact with its 2.23-metre length (compared to the 2.41 m of the Ami), the complete assembly of the Höga requires a little more than 370 parts in total.

All the components of the concept are recyclable, and together they would cost the buyer US$6,500.

This project will probably never see the light of day, but it shows that a small modular electric car, to be built by oneself, is not necessarily just science fiction.

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